Son of Cuban 'comandante' pleads to leave island
By WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
El Nuevo Herald
Lawyer Juan Almeida García, son of revolutionary comandante Juan Almeida
Bosque, was detained and complained of degrading treatment by government
agents after attempting to leave Cuba illegally, El Nuevo Herald has
learned.
''I had no recourse but an illegal departure. You can put me in prison,
slip another hood on me or make me disappear in the secret houses, but
all I'm asking is to be able to visit a doctor and be near my family,''
Almeida García, whose wife is in Miami, wrote to the authorities in
Villa Marista, headquarters of State Security in Havana.
That plea is one of nine letters sent by Almeida García between June
2006 and May 14 of this year detailing his persistent efforts to obtain
authorization to travel legally abroad. The documents were sent early
this month to friends in Spain and made available to El Nuevo Herald.
Efforts made by El Nuevo Herald to reach Almeida García by phone were
unsuccessful.
The requests for permission to leave the country temporarily are based
on the fact that Almeida García, 44, suffers from a degenerative
rheumatoid disease for which he has been treated in Brussels, Belgium,
since the early 1990s. He has not been able to leave the island since 2003.
Son of Cuban 'comandante' pleads to leave island - Americas -
MiamiHerald.com (28 May 2009)
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